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Downward To The Earth by Robert Silverberg
(SF Masterworks # 56) check out website:www.orionbooks.co.uk
He also has to make a promise to return a missing human, Cedric Cullen, who the Nildoror consider a criminal. In many respects, this is a quest plot but told with such exceptional detail that you'd probably be sweating alongside Gundersen if you read this book in the middle of summer. Oddly enough, the puzzle answer presented at the end wasn't that obvious until towards the end although the clues were laid out along the route as the ex-administrator meets people who stayed behind after everyone else had left. Although this story is now 27 years old, it is also a stark reminder not to base alien civilisations on our own preconceived ideas to what should make one work and worth reading if you haven't done so before. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - March 2004
Chasing Science by Frederick Pohl Wolves Of The Calla by Stephen King and illustrated by Bernie Wrighton The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans edited by Jon E. Lewis Changing Planes by Ursula Le Guin Red Star Rising: More Chronicles Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey Three Hearts And Three Lions by Poul Anderson Downward To The Earth by Robert Silverberg Buffy: Seven Crows by John Vornholt The Dragon Of Despair by Jane Lindsjold Gunpowder Empire by Harry Turtledove Barry Trotter And The Unnecessary Sequel by Michael Gerber Fitcher’s Brides by Gregory Frost Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror 2003 The Moon’s Shadow by Catherine Asaro Which Way To The Future: Selected Essays From Analog by Stanley Schmidt
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Holman's
Planet, now called Belzagor, has been returned to its native sentient
species after it was discovered that despite their jungle surroundings
and they looked liked four tusked elephants that they had an elaborate
civilisation.
It
is to this world that its previous administrator, Gundersen, returns
to redeem himself for some of the things he did to the pachyderm
Nildoror and a bi-pedal sub-species called the Sulidoror by visiting
their mist country. 
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